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Market-oriented urban agriculture in Gaza

OXFAM Italia and the RUAF Foundation are jointly implementing the Gaza Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture Project (G-UPA) with funding from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). The project will assist small-scale urban producers to establish value-adding microenterprises and to organise marketing chains for selected products at the local level and for export. Also, a Gaza Strip-wide Platform on Urban Agriculture will be established to develop longer-term policies and programmes. ​

Duration: 4 years

Funding: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and project partners (25 %)

Project partners: OXFAM-Italia (coordination) and RUAF Foundation (the Netherlands) in cooperation with local government, civil society, research and private sector stakeholders.​

Establishment of a Gaza Strip-wide Platform for Urban Agriculture that will ensure formulation and implementation of longer-term policies and programmes

Expected results:

Improvement of service supply markets to the urban agriculture processing sector (e.g. solar based cold storage; processing equipment and product quality control and improvements, packaging and labelling) has been facilitated

Training and extension service delivery to urban agriculture producers and processors in selected sectors (training of trainers and extension staff) has been improved.

Improved public policy and governance frameworks have been developed enabling a better functioning urban agriculture market system (strategic vision; policies, plans and regulations; protection of productive assets).